A West Clare Principal is calling on the new Minister for Education to provide 100% funding for non-state schools.
A briefing document prepared for Minister Richard Bruton suggests that some schools won't be able to meet insurance costs, heating and electricity and other bills and may be forced to close.
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It's understood an immediate injection of 40 million euro would be needed to get school funding back to 2011 levels.
Non-state schools receive 70% of their funding from the Government and Mary Crawford of St Joseph's secondary School says its not sustainable.
